The best interactive fiction games
Interactive fiction games (or text adventures) are adventure games in which the player gives textual commands in order to act within the given story. The story itself is told both using text and static pictures or with no graphics of any kind, just text. The genre's stepping stones are Adventure (developed in 1975) and the Zork series. Infocom, Legend Entertainment and Magnetic scrolls were some of the most popular interactive fiction developers of the 80s.
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Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS1987 Infocom
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS1987 Infocom
Sorcerer
DOS1984 Infocom
Knight Orc
DOSMac OS1987 Level 9 Computing
Knight Orc is a text-based adventure game released in 1987 by Level 9 Computing, a British game development studio renowned for creating interactive fiction during the 1980s. In Knight Orc, you play as Grindleguts the Orc, flipping the conventional fantasy trope of playing a heroic knight or adventurer.
Spellbreaker
DOS1985 Infocom
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS1984 Adventure International
Dragon World
DOS1984 Telarium
Perry Mason
DOS1985 Paisano Productions
Suspended
DOS1983 Infocom
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Deadline
DOS1982 Infocom
The Wizard of Oz
DOS1985 Windham Classics
1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003
1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical fiction with mystery-solving gameplay.In 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, players take on the role of a detective investigating ...
Questprobe featuring Human Torch and The Thing
DOS1985 Adventure International
Romantic encounters at the dome
DOS1988 MicroIllusions
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS1987 Infocom
Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS1986 Interplay Productions
Gnome Ranger 2: Ingrid's Back
DOS1988 Level 9 Computing
Moonmist
DOS1986 Infocom
The Usurper
DOS1989 Sir-tech Software
Beyond the Titanic
DOS1986 Apogee Software
Forbidden Quest
DOS1983 Pryority software
20000 Leagues under the sea
DOS1988 Coktel Vision
Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams
DOS1988 Tom Snyder Productions
Amazon
DOS1984 Telarium
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom
DOS1989 Tom Snyder Productions
Border Zone
DOS1987 Infocom
Voodoo island
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Return to Doom
DOS1988 Topologika Software